Friday, April 22, 2011

What Can You Get for $350?

Survey: Would you pay $350 for this shirt?

No, I didn't get this shirt...
For $350, I got six shirts, and and fifteen $10 bills... sort of.

Our neighborhood postman does not like headphones, and instead clips a small portable radio to the outside of his letter bag and enjoys sports radio at the tiny devices tinny-trebled strained maximum volume. He knows which names go with which faces, the history of nearly every house and its inhabitants, and can accurately speculate as to the goings-on based on what is being received through the mail-slots. This morning, an early-bird delivery was buzzed into our robed and pajama-clad city house.

Shirts from London... a package of TM Lewin (from whom I have never been offered or accepted any gifts, etc. by the way). I wait and wait and wait until I get them with free shipping and at clearance prices. I paid $200 for all of these:

$200 for 6 fine shirts

I did a quick search for what $200 could get me elsewhere. I was [not] surprised to find what $350 could get me... though I would not.

$350 for one shirt... likely very nice.

Instead of dropping $350 for one shirt, it seems more sensible to be patient, and then strike when opportunity presents. Who wants to read a blog about people spending $350 on a damn shirt? You can pick up any magazine and see models draped in $450 undershirts if that's your thing. Back in reality, a patient $33 for a nicely cut shirt is a bit better.